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diegobenincasa / quick-geocoder

QGIS 3 plugin for forward/reverse geocoding using many different services and GeoPy
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Please consider cooperating #1

Open pcav opened 4 years ago

pcav commented 4 years ago

there are e number of geocoding plugins. In order to reduce duplication and converge on a more robust solution, it would be good if you could add Bing provider to one of the existing plugins or core functionality rather then designing a new one. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

diegobenincasa commented 4 years ago

Hi, Paolo. Thanks for your feedback.

In fact, I've found many geocoding plugins, but two issues arise:

1) Many of them uses HERE/Google geocoding API's, and they implement their own code. My plugin uses the GeoPy library, an "interface library" that can geocode using numerous different services - one being Bing Maps. Due to the nature of my current job, I focused the implementation towards Bing Maps, but it can be adapted to use any other service (user's choice). Could it be a solution to change plugin's name to something more general, e.g. "QuickGeocoder" (like "QuickMapServices), and add the service's choice?

2) I saw some plugins that perform geocoding using localized geocoding services, available only to some limited spatial regions. That's absolutely not the case of my plugin.

Waiting to hear from you again.

Thanks!

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pcav commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the clarifications. Ikind of remember there is at least one plugin that uses GeoPy, could you please check or ask in the mailing list? I agree with the rename. I like your approach of having a general solution, I'd appreciate if you could discuss about this in qgis-dev ML, and together with the authors of other plugins: a shared solution is almost invariably a better one.